Team

Sylvain Gauthier, Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Gauthier holds a degree in Business from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce at Dijon. In 1979, Mr. Gauthier founded Vibel, children’s furniture. Today this company enjoys a worldwide presence in 12 different countries. Mr. Gauthier and Jamal Labed founded Staff&Line in 1988. Staff&Line originally specialized in computer training eventually evolving to the development of information technology (IT) asset management solutions. Mr. Gauthier accomplishments throughout his career demonstrate his innovation and leadership. In 1999, as recognition of Staff&Line performance, Mr. Gauthier and Mr. Labed received the prestigious award the Nef d’Or from the Paris Chamber of Commerce.

Jamal Labed, Chief Operating Officer

Jamal Labed holds a Business degree from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce at Rouen. In 1987, Mr. Labed founded SIGHT Group, a company focused on computer training and education with locations in France, Portugal, Morocco and Spain. In 1990, after selling SIGHT, he founded Echo Soft Technologies, specialized in the optimization of tools for SGBD Oracle. Subsequently he sold this company to Platinum Technology (Computer Associates). In 1998 Mr. Labed and Mr. Gauthier joined forces and founded Staff&Line. Throughout his career, Mr. Labed has showed leadership and innovation by creating several successful companies and by sharing his strong background and knowledge.

From 1998 to 1999, Mr. Labed was the spokesman for BSA France (Business Software Alliance) an organization that runs educational, enforcement and public policy campaigns to combat piracy in 65 countries around the world.

Gregory Lefort, UK Managing Director

Gregory has extensive knowledge of operating in both Northern and Southern Europe. He has worked with multi-cultural teams, spanning many territories and understands better than most the cultural nuances between countries. Before joining Staff&Line UK, Gregory headed up Northern Europe for ORSYP, a leading Enterprise software provider. Prior to this Gregory was also responsible for sales development and marketing at Thales Training & Simulation and Microsoft. Gregory stated his career in the IT industry in a marketing role at Microsoft and helped to launch Windows 95 to the French market.